Home is where the heart is.

But I have two homes, so does that mean my heart will always be torn?

Back in the US now, but anyone who reads this anymore knows that already (:

I kinda miss it there =/ mostly the moisture [x but the food, the cheapness, the carefree-ness. It really felt like a vacation (: buy what you want (except shirts, which is like THE WHOLE POINT D: (rant to follow)), sleep when you want, eat what you want. it's nice.

The plane ride back wasn't as good as going. I got one seat, next to some guy and his kid. You know kids get better food on planes?! D: it looks more friendly. and they get pudding :[ I was jealous. anyway, watched X-men, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, and Star Trek. Ghosts was actually pretty good. I liked it (: the brother almost made me cry though :O

There really is nothing to do back home though. I've been really busy and kinda stressed with Red Cross planning, but other than that there's really not much else to do. I talk to Tina a lot [x and have resorted to playing Maplestory --x I'm hoping to meet up with Avi and Paley sometime next week though :] so that should be fun. Guy's night out >:O only prob not gonna be at night xD Tina and I planned a beach trip too, so hopefully we can do that :D

Welcome home Sarah Zhang, and good luck reading through all my boring adventures in Taiwan (: the e-mails were kinda interesting, but I can't post about those (;

I'm really out of it though. I loved just being so free in Taiwan, being immature, being stupid, having fun when nothing's funny. Now I get to come home and be serious and do stuff right and concentrate. What a bummer. :]

~Chris

p.s. one last thing. Don't you hate it when people tell you they miss you when they don't? I mean, why do they even bother saying it if they don't mean it, and you're not asking for it?

KenDing Adventures Part 1

We’re in KenDing right now, or that’s the name of the national park. Anyway we’re at the southern tip of the Taiwan sweet potato (: (doesn’t it kinda look like a sweet potato?) so anyways. It’s my Jojo’s family (wife, him, fat cousin) and my grandpa, and the “Mei Guo” people [x So I got to sleep on the way there, since we’re the car of 3, but it hurt my neck -___-‘ which kinda ruins the point of sleeping, cuz sleeping’s to feel refreshed right? [x but I guess it passes time just as well.

So anyway, we finally got there, but we’re not allowed to check into the hotel until 3 O.o so we went to this random restaurant. I mostly ate white rice x] I love white rice =] so if I ever go to your house, and you feel obligated to feed me, make a lot of rice =] it’s cheap too ;D they had this REALLY COOL fish food though (: so it was like a fish stick? Only it just pure fish. They just stick it in a frying pan, and you can eat it whole (: but you won’t see a picture of that for a while xD as usual. Sorry ):

Then we went in this boat thing, with windows on the bottom, and we got to see all this coral and fish! But because of the typhoon the water was really murky, so we couldn’t see as much as they usually can. The funny thing though, was that the Taiwanese Coast Guard had to check our boat, leaving and coming in, to make sure we didn’t smuggle any people in, or ditch any in the water. xD

Buuuttttt.

OH MY GOODNESSS!~!~!~!~! The hotel we’re staying at is BEAUTIFUL!!! But the surrounding environment isn’t exactly all that great >_> but still :D ok. So the interior is like a giant sauna (: it’s ALL wood :D really pretty wood too. And the bathroom is really big and clean. A GIANT shower, and a tile animal thing in the bathroom (x there’s two floors too, so my sister and I are sleeping on the top, and it’s a two person bed too. =D so I’ve gone from a wooden floor thing, to a queen bed to myself? x] life is unpredictable. They even have strings of Christmas lights outside the room (: it’s so cute.

We walked a lot today o.o and that was pretty much my day. Besides that stuff ^. That and my mom yelling at me to get off the rocks xD because my cousin loves me…like a LOT. O_O so he does everything I do, and his mom doesn’t want him on the rocks, so I’m not allowed on the rocks. I don’t like those chain reaction things =[ I still got some really nice pictures though (: and rock climbing is fun. Whitney people would have SOOO much fun there. Mostly cam-whoring, since it’s so pretty, but rock climbing and playing in the beach (: CAN WE PLEASE, SOMEONE AND OTHER PEOPLE GO TO THE BEACH? =] that’d be nice. Not Bolsa though -___- cuz the sand kinda sucks. But planning later x] not now.

So now, we may or may not be going to dinner, and there’s no internet here, so I’m writing on word again. We have to go to McDonalds tomorrow for breakfast to use their wireless internet -___- to find a hotel to stay at tomorrow. Evidently they’re unable to plan hotel reservations for more than a day in advance. That’s alright though. Just as long as there’s somewhere to sleep (: and wireless internet? Please? Pretty please? =]

My mom won’t buy me a calling card =[ which kinda stinks D: I have some people I want to call. You know who you are (;

-Chris

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

So yesterday....today....I don't know how to blog anymore xD cuz the times are so different, and I'm not sure whether blogger is gonna put the times I post as Taiwan time, or PST. (Pacific Standard Time for anyone who is........nvm [x) so.

I freaking love LAX :D it's really pretty, but it was under construction =.= so it was kinda ugly, but still nice. (: I don't like getting there 4 hours early though x] you win some, you lose some. Oh FYI you guys, there's no free Wi-Fi in the airport XD I learned that the hard way. And there was this little kid charging his DS and playing it. and he kept looking over at my computer...and I'm like O.o uhhhh kid I'm right here. and he does it a few times [x it was odd. OHOHOH and there were these German people :D seriously you have to hear German spoken fluently. It sounds really really nice. They say Spanish is a romantic language (I know right >.>), but German is nice (:

Anyway, so we got to the gate on time, and they board 20 minutes late =.= and they say to be at the gate 30 minutes early. We got to sit on the upper deck :DDDD cuz iono. but yeah =] it was still economy class, but it was like half empty! So I got a whole 3 seats to myself ;D it was SOOOOOOOO NICE!!!! Why get first class when you can get 3 economy for the price of 1? =]]] so that really made the flight nice.

This was actually the first flight where I wasn't at some time begging for it to be over. I watched....let's see. CSI-NY, Spongebob, 90210, Push, 17 Again, and another movie but I forgot [x uhh....yeah. and I played some games [:

The flight attendants were really nice (: one of them looked like Catherine [x

13 hours later......

In Taiwan (: and after a 30 minute car ride and a stop at a 7-11 (they're everywhere. seriously), we get to my aunt's new house. IT IS SO FREAK'N BEAUTIFUL!!!!! 4 floors, 3 inhabited, cuz top floor is laundry and solar panels :O. I get my cousin's room :D which is super super nice. You'll be seeing some pics of the house on facebook soon. It's BEAUTIFUL! not even a year old. We stayed up until 12:30am talking and eating [x

7.31.09

Ate some dan bing (like chong yo bing) for breakfast, and played some foosball and WiiFit XD it's so much harder than it looks!!! no lie!

Theme Park today :D it's called....Leofoo Villiage Theme Park (: IT'S SO FREAK'N HUGE!!! I think they sent a spy to Knott's Berry Farm. Cuz they had a "Montezuma's Revenge" type thing, a "Big Foot", a "Log Ride", and just so much of it was similar o.o but the decorations are 1000x better. It's incredible how much money they put into decorations alone.

There was this operator lady in a swinging ship ride (better than the one at Knott's though cuz it went all the way vertical), and she looked like Sarah Ko and Tina mixed together O_O at first I thought it was Sarah Ko cuz she looked more like her. but scary!

We were there from like 10-3? and my feet hurt. I had this really big cup of shaved ice and mango (: so I'm kinda tired. maybe I'll update this if something happens tonight.

~Chris

p.s. If you're white and you go to Asia (and for some reason you read my blog.........) people STARE at you! like you're albino or something. Especially operator ladies and people in restaurants.

My Other Half

So I'm in Taiwan right now, and it's like 8:04am, so for you guys it's like 4:04pm. I just thought I'd let you know that I'm gonna be posting :D but that's kinda obvious cuz it shows up on your dashboard anyway XD

I have so much weird stuff to talk about on the plane ride and airports O_o surprisingly (:

Thanks for calling Alice :D I still owe you a voicemail.

you guys'll hear from me soon >:] (doesn't it suck ;])

-Chris

Last Minute Binge

Slept in today,then off to Tiffany's house, then off to Knott's =]

We kicked Tina out of Alice's car [x for Joe. which was kinda sad, but she didn't care. I really like her little animal things on the seatbelts O.o iono. they're just. yeah :D anyways, so we got there, and Allen was sitting all cool and whatnot, and then the fun stuff started.

I honestly don't know why I'm blogging about this. maybe I just don't want to forget it. I think I'll just write the fun stuff, instead of a super long useless post.

-Joe, Allen's, and my stranger pact.

-Half Wet, Half Dry.

-Mystery Lodge :D

-Daniel the really nice black waiter :D

-Marc the really cool asian? waiter :D

-Catherine's Party of Eleven

-Cam Whoring

-Snoopy on Ice =]]]

-Ghostrider at night

-Sitting with Alice procrastination

-slaps in the face

-Last minute Funnel Cakes :D

-white pillows

Now I'm off to Taiwan for a few weeks (: I get to take an SAT book, The World is Flat, and some other books [x yay. I wonder what I'm going to miss the most about here.

I'll blog though, if I have nothing better to do :D probably just to document what I do or if I need to talk to something.

bye (:

~Chris

A GOOD DAY :DDDD

my gosh.........today has been just an amazingly good day (: I'm really glad I'm getting some of these before I leave to go halfway around the world. where the people closest to me will be Tiffany Yeh and Sarah...ewww >.<

Well anyway, so I finished

Fast Food Nation

so that makes me pretty happy (: and I'm going to finish the essay tonight. so be jealous everyone ;D and I'm going to finish the book by tuesday >:] so yeahhhh.......good stuff =] I'm writing the essay for FFN right now, and I really am going to finish this tonight. but it's really hard to fit so much important stuff into one essay. I'm afraid it's gonna be super long >.<>

Anyways (: so about today. Went ice skating with Emily Hwang, Justin, and Pauline (you don't know Justin[or maybe you do]) from like 1:15-3:15 :D and that was fun. The ice was a lot smoother and a lot less people than last time. I failed again at trying to skate backwards but it was fun [x Emily kept trying to make Justin fall down, but he's pretty sturdy xD anyway. they made fun of us guys drinking out of the drinking fountain cuz it was like 2 feet off the ground, and we're like 6 feet w/ skates so yeah >.> kinda weird.

Then we walked to the mall and saw my mom on the way xD and we went to Yogurtland!! :D Justin's never been to Yogurtland, or the movie theaters in the mall D: talk about deprived. So then we went to Bath & Body and you can guess what happened xD

WE WATCHED THE PROPOSAL!!!! Oh mie goodness that is such a good movie. you seriously have to go see it if you haven't. It's cute, and funny, and it's just really really good. so go watch it :D or you can wait for it to come out on DVD, then come to my house and watch it (: I think that's prb funner >:] but go watch it now cuz it's worth it XD

this is seriously a long post o.o

So we were planning on going to Seal Beach on bikes tomorrow? (Avi, Opal, me, and some other people) but I don't think I can cuz I get out of church at 1, and it's kinda hot to bike at 1:30. so I can't go =[ it would have been fun though. so I guess just TWIFing tomorrow :O and maybe playing around on flickr (: I seriously love that website. cuz some of them are really good!!!

Formosa in 4 days :O it's so close!!!! kinda scary [x but I'm excited.

I want to do something on Tuesday, but I don't know who to go with or what to do... :/ quite a predicament. A certain someone wanted to go somewhere at 7/8pm >.> which is kinda not very realistic, but maybe if I'm really really desperate x]

gonna go work again.

bye~

-Chris